Thematic Unit Planning Matrix- One daily/weekly lesson, 45 minutes, for 1 month

Content
Area(Theme):
The Five Senses

Focus Area

Thematic
Questions

Centers

Technology
Integration

Assessment
and/or Rubric
Scale

Student
Products or
Portfolio

Common Core or PA
Standards

Arts Integration

-Why did
Students will you pick that
apply what
object? What
they know
inspired you?
about the
-What details
senses and
did you
describe them include in
in the visual your painting
arts
that were
important to
you?
-Was it easy
or difficult to
apply the
five senses to
your painting
if so why or
why not?

Discussing
in groups
about the
paintings
and what
senses they
see the
artist
depicting

Look, Listen,
Rubric
Taste, Touch, and
Smell by Pamela
Nettleton

Studentspoem
about their
painting
depicting the
five senses

Standard - 9.1.3.E
Demonstrate the
ability to define
objects, express
emotions, illustrate an
action or relate an
experience through
creation of works in
the arts.

Language Arts

Students will
come up with
adjectives
that could
describe one
of the five
senses

In centers
students
will be
assigned a
sense to
come up
with

Adjective Senses Rubric

Worksheet

The students
senses mat

Standard - CC.1.4.2.E
Choose words and
phrases for effect.
Standard - CC.1.4.2.K
Use a variety of words
and phrases to appeal
to the audience.

-What words
could
describe you
sense of
touch, smell,
taste, sight,
and hearing?

adjectives
for
Mathematics

Students will
create bar
graphs of
their favorites
involving the
senses

-What is
your favorite
sound, taste,
sight, smell,
and texture
to touch?

Discuss in Favorites Graphs Rubric

groups all
your
differences
in your
favorite
senses

The students Standard - CC.2.4.2.A.4

final graphs to Represent and
present
interpret data using
line plots, picture
graphs, and bar
graphs.

Science

Students will
explore foods
in the five
senses

-Describe
popcorn
-Describe
peanut butter
-Describe hot
sauce

Students
Journals to write
will be in down their
groups and observations
each station
will have a
different
food that
they will
need to
describe it
through
their senses

Rubric

The data they

collected on
each food

Social Studies

Students will
explore the
state of
Philadelphia
in the five
sense

-What can
you hear in
Philadelphia?
-What do
you taste in
Philadelphia?

Students
Journals to write
will be in down their
groups.
observations
Each
station will
have

Rubric

The data they Standard - 7.2.2.A

collected about Identify the physical
Philadelphia
characteristics of
places.

Standard - 11.3.3.G
Classify foods
according to senses
(e.g., taste, touch,
smell, mouth feel,
sight, sound).

-What do
you see in
Philadelphia?
-What do
you smell in
Philadelphia?
-What do
you
feel/touch in
Philadelphia?

examples
of sounds,
sights,
tastes,
smells, and
things to
touch in
Philadelphi
a